Orca (Killer Whale) - West Coast Indian Style
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Good new / Bad news: This was an experiment in techniques
and in mixing different materials. A couple of mis-steps led to near
disaster in the last hour.
It was a thrill to see it turn out so well but a couple of errors in setting cutting processes left its bottom left badly scarred. The long shallow cut can be filed, sanded and feathered but the big one will have to be milled out. The big error will likely become a flat spot for a mount. I had a couple of lead-in's that were too long and for some reason the CAM program didn't pick up one of the area's near the nose to mill for the black border. But overall, I'm really pleased with the concept and will be looking for more projects like this. Maybe use some silver inserts |
The overall dimensions are about 3.5" x 5.5" |
The process was essentially as follows:
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Updated February 07, 2007 Home |